Mobbing with an Expert
One of the most common situations you’ll encounter—especially early on while the development team is adjusting from solo work to mob work—is mobbing with an expert. Mobbing with an expert happens when one person in the mob is held up as the expert and everyone else is viewed as a novice. It’s not important if the expert’s mastery is skill-based or perception—the result is generally the same.
In his book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning [Hun08], Andy Hunt differentiates between novices and experts. A novice has little or no prior experience in a particular skill ...
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